North Dakota licenses contractors through the Secretary of State.
We don't hold the licensing board's file for Bismarck, so we don't show license status for the 342 firms on the permit file. Check each one yourself.
Ask the contractor for the license number and look it up at North Dakota Secretary of State contractor search. How to check a contractor's license in North Dakota →
The middle value recorded on this contractor's matching permits. It's a permit value, not a quote or the final price. Ask for a written estimate.
Matching Bismarck permits in the most recent year of our data. It shows recent recorded activity here, not every job the company did.
For contractors with at least 5 permits a year or more old, the share the city finaled. A permit can stay open because of paperwork or timing, so this isn't a workmanship grade.
How long their permits take from issue to the city's finaled date, compared with other Bismarck contractors in the trade. Shown for firms with 10+ permits.
Not shown yet for Bismarck — see the note below.
About the ranking: The score combines how much of this exact work a contractor has on record, how often their older permits reached completion (where we can measure it), how well their usual job size matches your budget, how recently they've been active, and how much of their work is near you. A measure we can't calculate is left out rather than guessed, and a thin record pulls the score toward the middle. A contractor whose matched license has a problem is listed after everyone else. You set the weights with the sliders on every list.
Bismarck specifics: Bismarck's permit system starts in September 2022, so no firm has a record here before then and the three-year window covers almost the whole file. Electrical permits carry no job value, so electricians show counts, completion and speed but no typical cost or price comparison. Furnace and AC replacements are ranked separately from HVAC installs; the city finals only about a quarter of replacement permits, so that trade shows no speed and its completion rates are low for everyone. Bismarck is a small market: many firms have a single permit in the window and Fireplace & Stove has only ten firms. Remodel & Addition is a catch-all that includes basement finishes and waterproofing. North Dakota's contractor licenses are a per-record search with no bulk file, so license status isn't shown. Locations are by ZIP code (four ZIPs). Some firms appear under two spellings.
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